The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)

Engagement – Issues Involved in Engagement
Client motivation can range from outright resistance to eager anticipation. A client’s decision to change is one of the essential steps toward fulfilling goals and a successful outcome toward therapy. Other essential elements of engagement reflect the “quality of the interaction, the collaborative nature of developing goals for treatment and the bond between client and therapist (Thompson, Bender, Lantry, & Flynn, 2007, p. 39-40). Clients with social anxiety involve fear of social situations that involves interaction with others and fear of the process of therapy and their role in it. Barriers to treatment engagement often interfere with treatment initiation and engagement. Historically, clients with

The Beck scales are validated scales used to measure and identify specific areas of dysfunction of the client. The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) is a 21 item self-report inventory that discriminates between anxious and non-anxious respondents. The BAI requires clients to rate symptoms experienced in the past week. It uses a 4-point scale from (0) not at all to (3) severely it brothers me a lot. The total scores are obtained and give a summation of one of three interpretations rating the severity of anxiety from low to high anxiety (Lindsay & Skene, 2007, p. 403). The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) is also a 21 item self-report questionnaire that measures behavioral, cognitive, and motivational symptoms of depression. The scale covers a 21 symptom attitude categories including cognitive, affective, somatic, and vegetative symptoms depression. Scaling of items 0-3. The scale has a scoring test reliability r-0.93, scoring internal consistency: Cronbach’s coefficient for BDI=II 0.92 (Lindsay & Skene, 2007, p. 403 &

Consequently, a number of self-rated and interview based scales have been developed to assess the symptoms and severity of SAD. The Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN) is a 17 item self-rating scale for social phobia. It evaluates symptom domains of (fear, avoidance, and physiological arousal, etc..) over the past week. The 17 items are rated on a scale from 0 to 4: not at all, a little bit, somewhat, very much, and extremely; with the highest score corresponding to greater distress (Connor et al., 2000, p. 179). SPIN in adult populations has demonstrated good test-re-test reliability and divergent validity; in psychometric examination results have displayed a strong support for temporal stability, internal consistency and construct validity (Johnson, Iderbitzen-Nolan, & Anderson, 2006, p.